WHILE THE EAST COAST WAS ASLEEP: The BART is running again today after a hard-fought deal to end the second strike in recent months. San Jose Mercury-News has more: http://bit.ly/1b9KzZU

WRRDA, WRRDA EVERYWHERE: The House Rules Committee meets today to decide what amendments can be offered when the Water Resources Reform and Development Act hits the floor tomorrow. The lower chamber won’t be in session on Thursday for the funeral of Rep. Bill Young — a leadership source said the hope is to finish the bill Wednesday, but that depends largely on how many amendments are offered. Amendments are due to the Rules panel today by 10 a.m. and the committee’s meeting is at 5 p.m. Kathryn takes a look at some of the amendments filed so far, including some Florida members looking for some home-state love: http://politico.pro/1gzl6jt

Settle the score: The CBO says the bill would cost around $3.5 billion between 2014 and 2018, with an additional $4.7 from 2019 to 2023. That’s not quite as high as the $10 billion that’s often cited, but the congressional score-keeper notes WRRDA got a $1 billion discount thanks to the recently-enacted debt ceiling-shutdown bill and its provision boosting the authorization for the Olmsted Locks and Dam project. Both the House and Senate bill would authorize more than $1 billion for the over-budget project, but the CBO said that the shutdown measure essentially takes care of the issue, so the cost doesn’t count against the water bill. More from CBO: http://1.usa.gov/18DFMAV

Shuster’s take: T&I Chairman Bill Shuster had hoped the score would come back as revenue neutral because it deauthorizes a slew of old projects — but his aides say he’s still satisfied with the figures. “CBO scoring conventions assume new authorizations will receive funding and that canceling authority to build projects does not provide budgetary savings,” one committee aide said. “While those are the conventions they use, they don’t change the fact that the new authorizations in WRRDA are fully offset with deauthorizations.” The aide added: “This is the most fiscally responsible WRDA bill ever.”

Against the current: There’s a lot of momentum for the water bill — it has strong bipartisan support from Congress and industry groups. But not everybody is a fan. Taxpayers for Common Sense, for one: “In the past, they were just WRDAs, but this is WRRDA and the extra ‘R’ is for reform. Actually, it should be retread,” VP Steve Ellis wrote. He also takes a whack at how the bill dedicates some money to ‘emerging harbors’: “One million tons may sound like a lot, but when you look at the most recent data, to be eligible the port would have to have less traffic than the nation’s 135th busiest port. That’s more a candidate for devolution than increased federal spending.”

TUESDAY HAS THE TITULAR LINE ( http://bit.ly/18130Nc). Thanks for reading POLITICO’s Morning Transportation, your daily tipsheet on trains, planes, automobiles and ports. I’m Adam Snider, your regular MT host, and last week I got so excited about having a day off that I forgot how to read a calendar — MT’s 500th issue is next Monday, not yesterday, so you still have time to send me an anniversary present. in the meantime, send me your favorite titular line, news, tips and more at asnider@politico.com. And follow on Twitter: @ AdamKSnider and @ Morning_Transpo.

DRIVE SAFE, TEENS: Today DOT unveils its “5 to Drive” campaign as part of Teen Driver Safety Week. Avid MT readers know all the scary stats about car crashes and teens, like how teens have three times as many accidents as older drivers. But DOT isn’t the only one getting in on the action. A slew of safety and other transport groups like AAA are drawing attention to the issue. Even automakers are chipping in — Ford, for example, sent letters ( http://ford.to/1h0STQk) to all members of Congress highlighting the company’s teen-based safety features. One interesting one is MyKey, which lets parents set a top speed and max radio volume for their teens simply by giving them a different key programmed with the limits. The company also has a set of tips ( http://politico.pro/19oEWHK) and two different graphics ( http://politico.pro/1a8Iejv, http://politico.pro/1bQf1Jt) for social media use urging drivers to pay attention and not follow too closely.

IT’S ON: ATA President Bill Graves has a solid Republican resume — he was a two-term GOP governor of Kansas and a big bundler for Mitt Romney in 2012. But he’s sick of the tea party, saying in a speech yesterday that the conservative wing is “reckless” and “corrosive.” From his prepared text ( http://bit.ly/15XQyAZ): “The recent performance by Republicans in Washington has provided the Democrats cause for great celebration.” He later told Kevin that the business community needs to look beyond party labels when making donations: “We're looking for the willing,” Graves said. “At this point, the political labels don't really matter.” Kevin has the story: http://politi.co/1h11AtT

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TRUCK VS. RAIL, ROUND 14: Graves also used his speech to reignite one of the fiercest and most intriguing modal battles MT has ever covered: Truck versus rail. He knocked the freight railroads’ “Freight Rail Works” campaign with a stinging rebuke: “I know that campaign bothers a lot of you and it bothers me too. But ask yourself this, if it works so well — IF IT WORKS SO WELL — why does it require a $100 million dollar ad campaign to tell everyone that it works?”

Railroad rebuttal: “We’re proud of our long-running ‘Freight Rail Works’ campaign and appreciate the fact that ATA saw fit to call it out,” Association of American Railroads spokesperson Patti Reilly told MT. “Only wish President Graves had told the gathering how much freight rail works for the intermodal business. So far this year we’ve moved more than 10,000,000 intermodal units, up 3.7 percent over 2012 . That’s a fact and figure that should warm the hearts of the trucking industry.”

SWORN IN: A trio of top transportation officials were all sworn in Monday: NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman, NTSB Vice Chair Christopher Hart and DOT CFO Sylvia Garcia. Scroll down just a bit to see more on Garcia, via DOT: http://1.usa.gov/1ca3RDt

OVERNIGHT REPORT-BAG — Metropolitan freight: Early this morning the Brookings Institution put out a report on goods movement in big cities. Transpo analyst Robert Puentes points out an interesting feature about how the national average belies what’s happening at the city level: “And despite the preoccupation with our goods trade deficit on the national level, almost every metro area trades certain commodities at a surplus. In other words, the national stats do not tell the whole story.” Check out the report, a video and much more: http://bit.ly/1gz5i05

NEW GIGS: Noted snappy dresser Todd Hauptli will be the new president and CEO of the American Association of Airport Executives, taking over a group he joined in 1991. And AASHTO’s board voted to elect Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary Mike Hancock as president and Wyoming DOT Director John Cox as vice president.

AMTRAK JOE: VP Joe Biden — famous for commuting into D.C. nearly every day on the Amtrak during his 36 years in the Senate — is back to his old ways. “Such an awesome commute to DC on @Amtrak with Vice President @JoeBiden!,” a Twitter user named Adrienne Cohen tweeted Monday morning. Give it a look: http://bit.ly/1gyq1RQ

THE COUNTDOWN: Surface transportation policy is up in 344 days and FAA policy in 709 days. The mid-term elections are in 378 days. DOT appropriations run out in 86 days.

CABOOSE — Monorail! GOP Rep. Steve Stockman is getting creative in his Obamacare criticisms, comparing the president’s to salesmanship of the law to that of Lyle Lanley ( http://bit.ly/15YFF20), the slick traveling salesman who sells Springfield a monorail one of the best and transportation-heavy Simpsons ever. “Obama was in full Lyle Lanley mode today. #Brockway #Ogdenville #NorthHaverbrook,” Stockman tweeted ( http://bit.ly/1dcnDh7) in reference to the three towns that a monorail “put on the map,” according to Lanley. Good timing, Rep. Stockman — less than two short weeks ago, MT referred you to a catchy musical monorail song from an episode written by Conan O’Brien: http://bit.ly/15Yf6fF

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** A message from the Coalition for Future Mobility: Driving Safety: Human error. It’s a factor in 94% of all crashes according to government data. So imagine how much safer our roads would be with Autonomous Vehicles. By reducing risky and dangerous driving behaviors, AVs will help save lives. Tell Congress to greenlight Autonomous Vehicle testing and deployment.http://bit.ly/gl-sd **

About The Author

Adam Snider is a transportation reporter for POLITICO Pro and author of Morning Transportation. He has covered transportation since 2007, joining POLITICO in 2011 to launch MT and later found the word “Mica-ism.”

Snider is a fan of all modes of transportation, though nothing beats a good silly walk. In his spare time, he can be found brewing a hoppy beer, rooting for the Nationals, watching a bad 1970s horror movie or exploring the District from his home base in Mount Pleasant.

Adam studied English and communications at Clemson University in South Carolina. His work has been featured by Nieman Journalism Lab and his snark has appeared on MSNBC. He has had several works of fiction published in literary journals and is constantly reminded of his proclamation to a fiction professor many years ago that journalism is for sellouts who abandon their creative dreams.